How do you beat this level? I've looked through the forums and everyones reply is to some degree 'git gud' which is not helpful.
I stop the three attack by building a town, taking the point either above or to the left and below. Resulting in the three hitting that with two and my city with one. However then you need to spend an extra turn cleaning up rather than building. I then tried both expanding and turtling, both result in the same thing, the twelve comes in and takes me out.
During the expands I will take a place and add a city next turn to it, by the time the first 12 arrives I have 4 territories and 3 cities, but the 12 just takes a city (often two) then has the number advantage.
Turtling doesnt get enough guys to stop the 12 either

So thus, how do you get enough guys to stop the 12?

It's a tricky level - you need a bit of luck that the AI chases you to the west side, while you do some clever manoeuvring to keep/retake as many cities as you can.

One thing you can do that makes this notably easier, is that if you get the right luck at the start you can have 2 cities at the start of Turn 5 - I uploaded a screenshot at the link below:

https://ibb.co/nwDn10w

You can get this ~25% of the time - you need the AI to hit your city first Turn 3, so you can run, and then you need the AI to hit your 1 in the north and not hit south instead (and you make add an army to that 1 and attack killing off his armies there). Both of these are 50:50 coin flips. So, I would suggest you keep restarting until you get this position (or something similar) at start of Turn 5, as that extra city really helps.

Thanks, that helped get me much closer than before. Now to see when the rng will go my way.

Can you get 300,000 subs?

Who mute me?

Shut up A.G

What's really weird in this level is that it says cities doesn't cost anything, but:
1) You can't build cities where you put armies
2) When you build a city on a place where you have already a city - you have no gold left

So that's not making sence. - So mainly building cities is on one hand necessary and on the other hand a handicap.

There's a way to get 2 cities without luck btw.

@MR: Base cost of cities is 0. Therefore each city costs 0 + n Gold with n being the amount of cities in that territory.

You can build cities where you place armies.

My friend told me that you gotta make enough armies to defend, and at the same time, do a hit-and-run operation. Connect to your teammate AI as fast as possible.